The Laws Of Our Fathers
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- Synopsis
- The novel opens with a spectacular drive-by shooting in one of Kindle County's notorious drug-plagued housing projects. The victim is an aging white woman who has been seen there before; within days her son, Nile Eddgar, a probation officer, is charged in connection with the crime-and the reader gratefully once more under the hypnotic spell that only Scott Turow can cast. Nile's trial is presided over-and narrated-by Judge Sonia "Sonny" Klonsky, whom his fans will remember from his second novel, The Burden of Proof. It brings together a vivid cast of characters from Sonny's student years during the turbulent sixties, among them Nile's father, Loyell Eddgar, once a leading campus revolutionary, and Sonny's old boyfriend Seth Weissman, who is now a renowned journalist. All have been permanently marked by the heady iconoclasm of their youth; some carry terrible secrets that come to bear on the case at hand in unforeseeable and explosive ways. Scott Turow's most powerful novel to date,
- Copyright:
- 1996
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 527 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780374184230
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 07/20/04
- Copyrighted By:
- Scott Turow
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
- Submitted By:
- Guido Corona
- Proofread By:
- Guido Corona
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.